Energy is central to nearly every major challenge and opportunity the world faces today, including poverty eradication, gender equality, adaptation to climate change, food security, health, education, sustainable cities, jobs and transport, speakers on 10 July 2018 told a key United Nations forum on sustainable development.

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PresseBox.de flickr | A UNEP solar energy system, the largest of its type in Africa.

ROME, 10 July 2018 (FAO)*– New analysis and modelling released today by FAO and more than 100 collaborating scientists projects that by 2050 climate change will have altered the productivity of many of the planet’s marine and freshwater fisheries, affecting the livelihoods of millions of the worlds’ poorest people.

Nearly 60 million people are employed in fisheries and aquaculture. Climate change poses a risk to their livelihoods. | FAO

10 July 2018 (Wall Street International)* –I just came from Costa Rica for a short stay in the “United” States of America to take care of some pressing issues. My return was shocking. I have been making this transition for decades now with ease and great familiarity. I have felt at home in both countries. Now all that has changed.

Not only has it changed, but the United States is almost unrecognizable as the nation it once was. Almost all the rights of citizens have been eroded or removed. Civil rights are almost a joke, were any of this funny.

Even before the escalation of conflict in Hudaydah, conditions in Yemen’s port city were some of “the most dire in the country,” according to the United Nations health agency on 10 July 2018.

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UN OCHA/Giles Clarke \ A suspected cholera patient lies on a wooden bed in a hospital in Hodeida. 15 April 2017.

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The World Health Organization(WHO) said that Hudaydah had registered the highest incidences of suspected cholera cases of any city; around 14 per cent of those reported nationwide since the start of the crippling epidemic, in April 2017.

In addition to that highly infectious disease, there have been 209 suspected cases of diphtheria and 252 of measles.

“The intensification of fighting in Hudaydah endangered not only those directly affected but also the 70 per cent of the population who depended on vital supplies, including health-care supplies, that flowed through Hudaydah port, WHO’s Tarik Jašarević told journalists in Geneva on Tuesday 10 July 2018.

Family planning was affirmed to be a human right 50 years ago, leading to what would become the annual observation of World Population Day [11 July 2018], which focuses attention on the impact the number of children born, has on the world.*

UN Photo/Albert González Farran | Every individual has the human right to determine the direction and scope of his or her future.

By Robert J. Burrowes*

Robert J. Burrowes

DAYLESFORD, Australia, 10 July 2018

While the world watched and waited with bated breath for the outcome of the substantial global effort – involving over 100 cave divers from various countries, 1,000 members of the Thai Army and 10,000 others in various roles – to rescue a team of 12 young football players and their coach, who were trapped inside a flooded cave in Thailand for 17 days, 850,000 children were killed by human adults in other parts of the world, many of them simply starved to death in Yemen or other parts of Africa, Asia and Central/South America.